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Popular Science Monthly 



A Rocking Board See-Saw for Chil- 

 dren's Playground 



THIS excellent piece of furniture for 

 the playground or porch may be 

 easily made of a board and segments of 



A board with attached segments of a wheel rim making 

 a see-saw rocking board for the children's playground 



rims from a discarded carriage wheel. 

 The board is rounded as shown and the 

 segments set in the board edge. Support- 

 ing strips may be used under the board 

 and across the lower part. These seg- 

 ments are slightly set out, as shown, to 

 make it rigid. 



An Overhead Dove-Tail Suspension 

 for Table Drawers 



THE method of hanging a drawer here 

 illustrated will be found a simple 

 and satisfactory way out of a difficulty 

 which is often encountered. 

 This way is practical 

 anywhere where a light 

 drawer, such as is used in 

 library tables, sewing cabi- 

 nets, and the like, is to 

 be placed in a limited space 

 and a bottom slide and rail 

 are either not possible or 

 undesirable. 



The construction simply 

 consists of a dove-tail 

 tongue engaging in a cor- 

 respondingly shaped notch 

 in the upper edge of the 

 rear end of the drawer, the 

 tongue being fastened ei- 

 ther direct to the table-top 

 or to blocks, if the drawer 

 does not come right under 

 the table-top. In front it 

 runs on two pins driven 

 into the table-legs and set 

 back about 1 in. to be out 

 of sight, or, if the drawer does not oc- 

 cupy the entire space between the legs, 

 on a couple of small steel plates screwed 



IN DEy WEL/qTtiElie 



IN WET WElflTt-IElie 



Old Tin Fruit Cans May Be Used 

 over Again 



OWING to the scarcity of tin, patent 

 cans for preserving fruit will be ex- 

 pensive for a time at least and difficult to 

 obtain. If one is careful in opening the 

 cans of fruit and vegetables purchased 

 from the grocery store the cans can be 

 used in the following manner: Thorough- 

 ly clean and dry the cans as soon as con- 

 tents are removed and store them away 

 in a dry place to keep them from rusting. 

 When ready to use them again fill the 

 cans to within }4 in. of the top and then 

 pour melted paraffin in to fill them. Tie 

 covers on of waxed paper and the contents 

 will be preserved as well as in the patent 

 can or glass jar. — L. Geumaine, 



-5TEEL PL^TES-^ 

 A dove tail table hanger for a drawer to 

 eliminate the sticking drawer slides 



to the edge of the side-ends and protrud- 

 ing about ' 2 in. 



This way of suspending a drawer has 

 many advantages. It is extremely simple 



